Landscape redux - Hanson, Loeffler etc.

[semloh]

Before the Dawn is everything you say, Alan and Mark. A gorgeous piece, beautifully played. Although Hanson isn't Unsung, this piece certainly is, and I don't understand why. I think it would be a perfect Encore at orchestral concerts.

[eschiss1]

... one movement of one work (sometimes quoted in other works) actually performed with any real frequency does not a sung composer make. He's only intermittently Romantic in our limited sense, I grant.

[Alan Howe]

I'd say Hanson was definitely unsung - especially here in the UK.

Eric: Before the Dawn is very early Hanson and very definitely romantic in the traditional (not neo) sense.